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Two women killed by suspect fleeing Marion County deputies

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Updated: 6:00 PM EDT Jul 31, 2017

MARION COUNTY, Fla. —

A law enforcement pursuit in Marion County resulted in the deaths of two women Friday night.

The sheriff's office said a deputy was doing an unspecified criminal investigation near Juniper Road and baseline Road, when a suspicious vehicle tried to flee the area. The deputy did a traffic stop, but the vehicle refused to stop, resulting in the pursuit.

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The Florida Highway Patrol said that Jaquard Cuyler, 26, of Wildwood was the fleeing suspect, on US 301 in the southern part of the county.

Around 10:30 p.m., Cuyler's southbound VW Jetta was accelerating athigh speed, according to the sheriff's office. A news release from the MCSO stated that as the VW approached SE 132nd Street Road, deputies "pulled back their pursuit as the suspect vehicle accelerated approaching the intersection at a high rate of speed."

Cuyler ran the red light at that intersection, according to both police agencies, and crashed into a Lincoln driven by Brittany Chmilarski, 29, of Ocala. Chmilarski, and her passenger Denise Allen, 57, of The Villages, were killed.

After the initial crash, Cuyler's vehicle hit another vehicle. The two occupants of that third vehicle were not injured.

Cuyler's injuries are described as critical by the FHP and serious by MCSO.Authorities closed the intersection for about eight hours while they workeda traffic homicide investigation.

At this time, the Marion County Sheriff's Office is not releasing the nature of the criminal investigation that led deputies to pursue Cuyler.